Originally Posted By: Gary Allan
Originally Posted By: Shuttler
The value of the dollar is different on different sides of the street. Nothing new. All you have to do is to cross it to the other side. Nurses make on average $63k a year. So do accountants. Specialized nurses make much more. Kids who bust heir rear diffs off at McDonalds get no tips, kids at Starbucks do. So, what a kid to do? Most complain, some will cross the road.
All most customers want is the best price, best value is not for everybody. Differentiate yourself, and bill your customers accordingly. Takes a lot of effort, and the outcome is not always linear. Most of the time you have to put so much effort with zero output. Life is not fair. Social justice lives in the politicians' campaigns. Rather cozily at that.
Your ancestors crossed the road when they moved to this country. Some of them would reach their coveted homestead in the middle of Minnesota in the middle of the winter and half of their children die before spring. There was no unemployment benefit, social services, an interpreter to take them to the dentist, no dentists around - just a few friendly wolves. The core of this great country has changed a lot since then. Alexis de Tocqueville would not recognize it. We have a systemic problem: passive to active ratio is getting higher and higher. And politicians use this brilliantly.
And I believe that the school system fails us a lot. This is where the seeds of middle class crystals are supposed to be seeded. The only hope is family values and extraordinary individuals
Philosophically sound ..loaded with tenets and ideology ..but totally lacking in substance of realities. I will admit it's much better than the blathering of Billy O ..or the blubbering of Rush Limbarph ..but nebulous and void of sensible pathways.
You can't have a capitalist nation with all winners. You also can't have a fractional reserve system that makes ever increasing debt a requirement without adding more and more pawns to the ponzy scheme. Those things did not exist (the Fed Reserve) when homesteading was an adventure in Minn.
So, please, don't attribute all that much to some intestinal fortitude ..determination ..ingenuity..for if all possessed it ..there would still be ghettos and slums.
Most attainment and achievement is as it's always been, via either birthright or coincidence. The few rags to riches stories are just that, stories that provide either hope ...or mostly foolish belief.
Some will prosper ..some must not. Very simple. The rest or robbed where they cannot defend/protect ..and the victors in the scam enjoy the spoils.
Generations of immigrants have manage to come into this country and through intestinal fortitude and hard work, have managed to "make it." And that still happens today. And by making it, I don't mean they became millionaire bankers and doctors. I'm talking about people who went from poverty or non-status in their own countries to a middle class lifestyle, one that you seem to take for granted. I'd hardly call it false hope or foolish belief.
I'm not going to blow sunshine up your arse and tell you that capitalism is some panacea or nobody is going to get ripped off. Or that there is justice for all. But your constantly stream of whining is really tiring.
The great irony here is that you lived and profited off the greatest bubble ever created. Your biggest mistake is that you didn't question that post war ponzi until you started losing yield when they ran out of suckers to feed into the ponzi behind you. And now you are [censored]. You are just like the people you criticize, sucking off the world for most of your adult life. You were fully complicit in the theft but thought you "deserved" your yield. You didn't pay attention until your yield stopped and now you are seeing it for what it really is. But rather than taking some responsibility for the fact that you let yourself be suckered, you are looking for "thieves" to blame. I don't know whether to laugh or cry at the irony.
I'd have much more respect for you if you just admit that you were just another parasite, but that you weren't one of the alpha parasites. Not being very good at the game is nothing to be ashamed of. As you say, it's all a genetic coincidence. But this false nobility and projection of "I get it but you guys don't" image is really pretty tiring. Since you know all, I'm sure you can tell us the solution. But so far, I haven't heard any solutions from you, only complaints about thieves and capitalists.
